America and the World
According to the mid-summer polls, Americans are primarily concerned about the U.S. economy as the country enters the last lap of the 2008 election cycle. No visitor to the gas pumps, and no investor, can doubt why. Yet we also live in a globalized world in which the tectonic plates that shape international politics are shifting, often dangerously. What does a Catholic optic on world politics suggest about these circumstances? What questions might thoughtful Catholic voters put to the principal presidential candidates about U.S. foreign policy?. Read more

 Children of immigrants
Author’s note: This article is not about immigration reform.  Just attitude reform. 

We’ve all heard it said that we shouldn’t begrudge the mass influx of people from Mexico because, “We need someone to do the dirty work.”  Read more.